What is 'decision superiority' in MCDP 6?

• A. The ability to delay decisions in order to gather more data.
• B. The ability to influence the timing and quality of decisions in one’s favor by maintaining information advantage and rapid decision cycles.
• C. The ability to command more forces than needed.
• D. The ability to avoid making decisions.

Answer: (B)

Decision superiority is about shaping when decisions happen and how good they are to your advantage by keeping an information edge and moving decisions quickly through the chain. It rests on having better, faster, trusted information—so everyone understands the situation more clearly—and on a decision-making process that can turn that information into timely actions across multiple levels. By sustaining information advantage and rapid decision cycles, you constrain the adversary’s options and preserve tempo, allowing you to influence outcomes in your favor.

This isn’t about delaying decisions, commanding more forces than needed, or avoiding decisions. Those approaches slow tempo, waste energy, and degrade your ability to act decisively.